1. touch, involve. 3. disturb. 5. burden, responsibility. Concern,care,worry connote an uneasy and burdened state of mind. Concern implies an anxious sense of interest in something: concern over a friend's misfortune.Care suggests a heaviness of spirit caused by dread, or by the constant pressure of burdensome demands: Poverty weighs a person down with care.Worry is an active state of agitated uneasiness and restless apprehension: He was distracted by worry over the stock market.8. firm, house.